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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO PRINZ, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR To FARBFABRIK, VORMALS BRGNNER, OF SAME PLACE.

RED COLORING-MATTER FROM BETANAPHTHYLAMINE SULPHO-ACID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,830,dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed May 8, 1884. Serial No. 130,799. (Specimens) Patented in Germany July 5, lSBl, No. 22,547; in Belgium July 17,1882, No. 58,501; in England August 4, 1882, No. 3,724; in France August 5, 1882, No. 150,503, and in Luxemhurg March 1!,

the diazo combinations of the aforesaid betanaphthylamine sulpho-acid.

The method of effecting the combinations is as follows: Fifty-five kilograms betanaphthylamine rnonosulphurous sodium are dissolved in five hundred liters of hot water. To this are added sixty kilograms of muriatic acid, (of specific gravity 1.19,) and the whole cooled down to 5. The naphthylamine sulpho-acid separated by the above process has now added to it awatery solution of sixteen kilograms of sodium nitrite. The diazo combinations thus obtained are gradually mixed with eighty five kilograms betanaphthol disulphurous sodium.

By naphthol disulphurous sodium I understand the mixture of sodium salts of both the isomeric 'naphthol disulpho-acids, which are obtained by sulphurating betanaphthol, betanaphthol monosulphurous-acid salts, or betadinaphthyl ether.

The coloring-matter obtained by mixing the above-described solutions is precipitated by salt, pressed and purified by solution.

The thus-obtained coloringmatter differs, essentially, in its properties from similar products hitherto known. It dissolves in concentrated sulphuric acid with a cherry-red color, while on the other hand the coloring matter described in Coros patent, Reissue No. 9,1 14, dated April 6, 1880, dissolves in sulphuric acid with a violet color, and the coloring-matter described in Baums patent, No. 251,164, dated December 20, 1881, dissolves in sulphuric acid with a greenish color.

Treated with tin and muriatic acid,the herein-clairned new coloring-matter gives the new betanaphthylamine sulphoacid and the disulpho-acids of amidobetanaphthol.

Having thus described my invention and the manner of employing the same, I claim 1. The method of producing a red coloringmatter by combining betanaphthol disulphoacid with the diazo combinations of betanaphthylamine sulpho-acid which has been produced by treating betanaphthol sulpho-acid with ammonia, substantially as herein described.

2. The new red coloring-matter herein described, having the properties of dissolving in concentrated sulphuric acid with a cherryred color, and which when treated with tin and muriatic acid forms betanaphthylamine sulpho-acid and the disulpho-acids of amidobetanaphthol,substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUGO PRIN Z.

Witnesses:

FRANZ WIRTH, FRANZ HASSLAOHER. 

